Coaching Achievements
He was hired to manage the Red Sox in 2004 and led the team to two World Series titles, ending the franchise's 86-year-old championship drought.
Who is Terry Francona?
At his 2014 induction, this punter said, “Now the Hall of Fame has a complete team.”
Who is Ray Guy?
This school is the only one ever to win a Division I championship for football & men’s basketball in the same year.
What is the University of Florida?
He pitched a record 749 complete games over the course of his 22-year career.
Who is Cy Young?
During the 1976 and 1977 seasons, this NFL team managed to lose an unprecedented 26 games in a row.
Who are the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
He won the 1988 NCAA Division I title at the University of Kansas, and later made history by also winning an NBA championship.
Who is Larry Brown?
He’s the most recent Super Bowl-winning starting quarterback to hail from a non-Division I-A school
Who is Joe Flacco?
The Utah Jazz were founded in 1974 in this city.
What is New Orleans?
He’s the only player to win the World Series MVP for 2 different teams.
Who is Reggie Jackson?
In a June 28, 1997 boxing match, Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting off part of this fighter’s ear.
Who is Evander Holyfield?
He was the only head coach the Dallas Cowboys knew in their first 29 seasons.
Who is Tom Landry?
Not adopted by the NFL until 1994, the first successful one was by Tom Tupa in Week 1 that year.
What is the two-point conversion?
In 1935, it became the only city to win three major sports championships in the same year.
What is Detroit?
The only players to finish 2nd in MVP voting in 2 straight years before winning in Year 3 are Mike Trout and this legendary Yankee.
Who is Mickey Mantle?
This MLB team has won the World Series twice, but has never won its division.
Who are the Marlins?
By winning Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000, he became the first head coach to win both a Rose Bowl & a Super Bowl.
Who is Dick Vermeil?
They’re the only team to have played in at least 4 Super Bowls without ever holding the lead.
Who are the Minnesota Vikings?
This city was the only one to win a Super Bowl, World Series & NBA Finals in the 1970s.
What is Oakland?
He is the only member of the 500-homer club who played in fewer than 2,000 games in his career.
Who is Mark McGwire?
This NBA Hall of Famer was drafted first overall in 1984, two spots ahead of Michael Jordan.
Who is Hakeem Olajuwon?
He is the only person in NBA history to be named Most Valuable Player, Coach of the Year, and Executive of the Year
Who is Larry Bird?
The last time that teams from the same state squared off in the Super Bowl was when these two did in January 1995.
Who are the San Francisco 49ers and San Diego Chargers?
All of this NBA team’s division rivals are in a neighboring state.
Who are the Phoenix Suns?
This 4-time MLB All-Star played 2,831 games, the most without any World Series appearances.
Who is Rafael Palmeiro?
In his final game as a college football player, this Stanford quarterback and eventual Super Bowl Champion was the losing quarterback because of "The Play."
Who is John Elway?